fme_1153887 - BELGIUM - KINGDOM OF BELGIUM - LEOPOLD II Médaille, Jules Anspach, Inauguration des arches de la Senne
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Type : Médaille, Jules Anspach, Inauguration des arches de la Senne
Date: 1871
Mint name / Town : Belgique, Bruxelles
Metal : copper
Diameter : 66,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver WIENER Charles (1832-1888)
Weight : 116,77 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Jolie patine marron avec quelques marques d’usure et taches d’oxydation
Obverse
Obverse legend : A J.LES ANSPACH BOURGM.TRE - DE BRUXELLES - 1872.
Obverse description : Tête nue de profil à gauche, signé : CHARLES WIENER..
Reverse
Reverse legend : 30 NOV.BRE 1871, INAUGURATION DES ARCHES DE LA SENNE // ANSPACH / WATTEEU FUNCK / DEVADDER. GOFFART / VANDERMEEREN. / - / RANWET CATTOIR / BISCHOFFSHEIM / JACOBS WALTER / CAPPELLEMANS / VELDEKENS / DEPAIRE. ORTS. / MASKENS. TIELEMANS / CAPOUILLET. COUTEAUX / HOCHSTEYN. LEMAIEUR / WAEDEMON. LECLERCQ. / FONTAINAS. GODEFROY / DE ROUBAIX. / MEERSMAN. / - / LACOMBLE // 23 OCT. 1865 // 6 MAI 1867 16 SEPT. 1868.
Reverse description : Allégorie féminine, drapée, tenant une branche de laurier d’une main et s’appuyant sur la stèle gravée aux noms des donateurs à gauche.
Historical background
BELGIUM - KINGDOM OF BELGIUM - LEOPOLD II
(10/12/1865-17/12/1909)
Leopold II (9/04/1835-17/12/1909) is the eldest son of Leopold I and Louise d'Orléans. He married Marie-Henriette, Archduchess of Austria, who bore him three daughters: Louise, Stéphanie, and Clémentine. He relied on England to repel the aims of Napoleon III in 1866-1869. His reign was marked by the economic and industrial development of Belgium, which also became a great colonial power thanks to the personal annexation of the Congo by the king at the Congress of Berlin in 1885. Without a male heir, his nephew Albert I succeeded him. in 1909. He bequeathed the Congo to Belgium in 1908.
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